The People's Singer and the Meddling Habit.

It says a lot about Kate Bush that many of the people who comment on her YouTube videos refer to her as ‘Our Kate.’ I wonder how she feels about being in the same category as Vera Lynn and Gracie Fields.

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And on the subject of YouTube, it’s evident that Big Brother has been busy further googleising it. Google’s surreptitious stamp is all over YouTube now, with their pretentiously arcane symbols and their silly slidey things. And of course, it isn’t working properly at the moment.

I don’t so much mind Google trying to take over the world, since their efforts in that regard are easily side-stepped once you see through them, but I do wish they wouldn’t meddle with something as precious as YouTube. Meddling is one of Google’s very worst habits.